Glider Sverdrup Physical Oceanographic Profile Data from the Gulf of Mexico, 2018

Physical trajectory profile data was collected by the Sverdrup glider in the Gulf of Mexico from May 9 to June 13, 2018. The dataset contains measurements of oceanographic properties like temperature, salinity, conductivity, and density. It was deployed by the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System and Texas A&M University, and archived by the National Centers for Environmental Information.

Use Cases

• Analyze vertical profiles of seawater density based on temperature and salinity measurements.
• Study water mass structure and variability in the Gulf of Mexico based on conductivity and temperature data.
• Validate or calibrate regional ocean circulation models based on in-situ physical property observations.
• Investigate glider trajectory and sampling patterns for autonomous platform mission planning.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific deployment period from 2018-05-09 to 2018-06-13.
• Contains measurements of multiple core physical oceanographic properties.
• Data underwent a compliance check by the IOOS National Glider Data Assembly Center.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last updated 2018-06-13 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Integrated Ocean Observing System's National Glider Data Assembly Center (IOOS NGDAC), archived by NOAA NCEI.

Collection Method

Collected via an autonomous underwater glider deployment.

Time Range

2018-05-09 to 2018-06-13

Freshness

Last updated 2018-06-13 00:00:00; data is from a single deployment in 2018.

Geography

Gulf of Mexico